Grants awarded
You can search below for information about all grants we awarded. Our grants data is also available in csv format here.
We are committed to transparency, and believe that with better information, grant-makers can be more effective decision makers. In 2017 we started to work with 360Giving to publish information about Arcadia grants (last updated July 2024). Arcadia has waived all copyright and related or neighbouring rights to Arcadia’s grant data, to the extent possible under law, by dedicating it to the public domain with the Creative Commons CC0 waiver. This means the data is freely accessible to anyone to use and share.
Sinai Palimpsest Project open access online publication
To provide open access online publication of multispectral images produced by the Sinai Palimpsest Project, which documents the manuscripts in St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai
$200,000
2014
2 years
Wikipedia Zero
To expand Wikipedia Zero, which gives free, mobile access to Wikipedia to people who cannot afford mobile data costs.
$100,000
2014
1 year
Open Access Initiative
National Library of Israel
http://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/English/digitallibrary/time_journey/Pages/default.aspx
To establish the library as a model for open access.
$300,000
2014
1 year
Ecosystem connectivity in threatened South American landscapes
To secure new areas of high biodiversity value under conservation management, in collaboration with local partners
$1,800,000
2014
3 years
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,000
2014
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,000
2014
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,000
2014
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,000
2014
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$81,060
2014
1 year
Documentation of Kalmyk heritage
To document the endangered cultural heritage of the Kalmyks and Oirats, and to create an open-access digital archive of this material.
$1,207,965
2014
5 years
Core costs
To digitize and give open access to legal documents, technical standards and safety standards that should be in the public domain.
$200,000
2014
2 years
History of Jewish Mysticism and Esotericism
To support the research and publication of Professor Joseph Dan's multi-volume history of Jewish mysticism and esotericism.
$222,600
2014
3 years
Wildlife Defence Programme
To enforce the laws that protect European wildlife and habitats through targeted litigation and other legal interventions, supported and complemented by strategic advocacy and capacity building with partners across Europe.
$1,459,073
2014
3 years
Documentation of endangered archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa.
To create a database of endangered archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa using satellite imagery and on the ground survey.
$1,964,055
2014
3 years
Halcyon Land & Sea
To secure important areas of natural habitat and ensure their associated wildlife will survive.
$5,000,000
2013
5 years
Authors Alliance
To improve public access to knowledge by promoting open access.
$250,000
2013
1 year
Preserving Bhutan's cultural heritage
To document the oral traditions of Bhutan and make the records available for free online.
$1,422,590
2013
5 years
National Anthropological Archives
To digitize a collection of ethnographic sound recordings and associated manuscripts and to make it available for free online.
$1,000,000
2013
3 years
Historical Ice Core Project
Harvard University (Department of History)
http://sohp.fas.harvard.edu/historical-ice-core-heart-europe
To document and interpret historical environmental data captured in an ice core from a glacier in the Alps.
$525,000
2013
4 years
Conservation of birds and their habitats
To build the capacity of national Birdlife partners in high-biodiversity countries, to ensure that priority species and habitats are sustainably managed.
$1,800,000
2013
6 years